We wrote to you recently regarding an opportunity for your club to earn additional revenue through an affiliation programme the WRU has agreed with Loteri Cymru. You will earn £5 for every member who clicks through from your website to Loteri Cymru and opens an account, members don’t have to make a deposit when opening an account and they don’t have to be members of your club for you to earn the £5 referral fee.

If you agree to joining the scheme, the WRU will setup banners on your website that will track any sign-ups that come from your website and a credit will be raised with the WRU. This credit will then be taken off your club ticketing bill during the forthcoming season. We hope that the scheme can help raise funds for your club as well as help launch the Loteri Cymru, the first lottery dedicated solely to raising money for good causes in Wales.

Players have the opportunity to win up to £25,000 in the weekly loto draw, with an additional second chance to win in the monthly loto+ draw which offers 10 guaranteed prizes of £1000. Tickets cost just £1 and odds of winning any weekly prize are just 1:8.77.

Since its launch Loteri Cymru have given out over £200,000 in prizes, with 67.8% of players winning a prize. And one lucky person has won the jackpot of £25,000!

Hanfod Cymru, which distributes money raised by Loteri Cymru ticket sales, has awarded grants ranging from £200 to £6,000 to thirteen charities in their initial Small Grants programme. The money will now fund a variety of activities across Wales, with an interest in educational, social and cultural benefits – the criteria set by Hanfod Cymru, projects in your communities.